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Does Unilateral Decarbonization Pay For Itself?

Bilal, Adrien; Känzig, Diego R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper shows that unilateral decarbonization pays for itself in large economies. We estimate economic damages from global temperature shocks and combine them with a climate-economy model to construct Domestic Costs of Carbon: $226 per ton for the United States and $216 per ton for the...

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe : Why So Different?

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but … the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …

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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto - 2003

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

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Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander - 2018

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...

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Is The Mediterranean The New Rio Grande? US And EU Immigration Pressures In The Long Run

Hanson, Gordon - 2016

into the United States and Europe, with the coming three decades, which will see sharp reductions in labor-supply growth in … markedly. Europe, in contrast, will face substantial demographically driven migration pressures from across the Mediterranean …

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Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Alesina, Alberto - 2001

these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …

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Monetary Policy and Performance in the U.S., Japan and Europe, 1973-86

Fischer, Stanley - 1987

Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and evaluated, with the aim of drawing lessons for monetary policy from the recent historical record. All four countries shifted during this period to money targeting, though with...

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Productivity, Wages, and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the U.S., Japan, and Europe

Gordon, Robert J. - 1986

. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … primary theme of the paper is that differences between Europe and the U. S. have been substantially exaggerated in recent work …. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits …

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The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates : The European - U.S. Connection

Cumby, Robert E. - 1984

rates has been widespread in the analyses by economic policymakers both in Europe and in the United States. In this paper we … been raised by the recent policy debates in Europe and the United States: Have ex ante real rates in the United States and … Europe been high during recent years? Has there been a link between U.S. real rates and those in other countries? Can this …

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Underemployment in the US and Europe

Bell, David N. F. - 2018

Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...

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